4 The roads to Zion mourn,because no one comes to the solemn assembly.All her gates are desolate.Her priests sigh.Her virgins are afflicted,and she herself is in bitterness.
5 Her adversaries have become the head.Her enemies prosper;for the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions.Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
6 All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion.Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture.They have gone without strength before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseriesall her pleasant things that were from the days of old;when her people fell into the hand of the adversary,and no one helped her.The adversaries saw her.They mocked at her desolations.
8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned.Therefore she has become unclean.All who honored her despise her,because they have seen her nakedness.Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
9 Her filthiness was in her skirts.She didn’t remember her latter end.Therefore she has come down astoundingly.She has no comforter.“See, Lord, my affliction;for the enemy has magnified himself.”
10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things;for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary,concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.